Using Fiscal Policy and Public Financial Management to Promote Gender Equality

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the many people and institutions that were instrumental in helping to bring about this book. I am grateful to my co-authors on chapters in this book, Suhaib Kebhaj, on Chapters 2 and 5, and Ellen Shnidman, on Chapter 6, who also helped extensively with revisions to all the chapters. Manuk Gazanchyan and Li Tang ably assisted with the statistical work in Chapter 9 and Selma Osman provided capable research assistance.

I would like to express my gratitude to commenters on the book’s draft or earlier versions of the chapters as International Monetary Fund working papers, including Sandra Stotsky, Tej Prakash, Saqib Rizavi, Ronen Shnidman, Rhonda Shore, and Carol Rapaport, and many former International Monetary ...